The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have - it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through cultivation of altruism, of love, of compassion.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

When you let go of trying to control everything, you can relax and enjoy life.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

The most profound meditation is to think nothing at all.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The root of suffering is attachment.